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Appendix of TR “Trust Cartoons”

For Roosevelt cartoons from Puck, see http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/puckframes.html

May 2,1906: President Theodore Roosevelt depicted

as a volcano erupting and

spewing a dark cloud labeled “Tax

on Wealth,” indicating his effort

to tax ‘swollen fortunes,” startling an elephant labeled

“G.O.P.” to run away; on the left, is

a zen-like Vice-President Charles

W. Fairbanks.

May 23, 1906: Allegory depicting

Theodore Roosevelt as the infant Hercules fighting large

snakes with the heads of Nelson W. Aldrich and John

D. Rockefeller, the great trust barons Roosevelt fought against under his “trust-busting”

policy.

May 25, 1904; President Theodore Roosevelt stopping

Philander Chase Knox from cutting down a

tree labeled “The Trusts” with an ax labeled “Anti-Trust

Laws.” Illustrative of T.R.’s measured

approach to distinguish good vs.

bas trusts.

Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust fell in the latter category

January 13, 1904; T.R. with a sword labelled “Public Service”

seeks to do battle with the Trusts headed by J.J. Hill, J.P.

Morgan, Jay Gould, and Rockefeller.

November 2, 1904; George B.

Cortelyou turning a vice to squeeze

money for Theodore

Roosevelt's reelection

campaign from a bloated man labeled "The

Trusts". T.R. was alleged to have accepted money from Trusts in exchange for

stopping/slowing anti-trust suits

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September 30, 1903: Depicts the growing abuse of large corporations, and their abuse of the law through bribe and

graft; T.R.’s podium include the quote: “If alive to their true interests, rich and poor alike will set their faces like flint against the spirit which seeks personal advantage by overriding the laws, without regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of

men.” President Roosevelt's Speech, Sept. 7.

March 8, 1905; depicts T.R. as a circus trainer trying to tame The Trusts, the G.O.P., Panama, Santo Domingo, & the Philippines.

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September 2, 1903; “A Timely Warning”; illustrative of the political dangers regarding the protective tariff; cartoon shows the Republican elephant

wearing a hat labeled “G.O.P.” and “High Protective Tariff” and a swimsuit labeled “Tariff-Protected Trusts,” wading offshore toward huge waves

labeled “Public Patience.” President Theodore Roosevelt is standing closer to shore with one hand on a “Reciprocity Life Line” and the other hand

raised, as he calls out a warning about going too far.

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